What I Love About You

I don't know what I love about you
because, my love for you
grows everyday.
How do I put into words
all my heart has to say?
I love it when I close my eyes
Your image pops up in a minute
How the only person I see
is you
and when I dream,
you are always in my subconcious thoughts.
I love the way your voice sounds
everytime you whisper in my ear
and even when were miles apart
I could still feel your presence near.
I Love the way you want to be with me
and how I feel
when I'm with you
but, most of all
I love you for just being you.

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Editor’s Note

The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”